32283 : Clam AntiVirus MIME Malformed CAB File Processing DoS
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Timeline

Vendor Informed Date	Vendor Ack Date	Disclosure Date
2007-02-07	2007-02-13	2007-02-15

Time to Vendor Response
6 days

Description

(Description Provided by CVE) : Clam AntiVirus ClamAV before 0.90 does not close open file descriptors under certain conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor consumption and failed scans) via CAB archives with a cabinet header record length of zero, which causes a function to return without closing a file descriptor.

Classification

Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Private

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Security Tracker: 1017659
CVE ID: 2007-0897 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 22580
Secunia Advisory ID: 24183 24187 24192 24319 24332 24425 29420
Related OSVDB ID: 32282
ISS X-Force ID: 32531
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2007-0623
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-02/0275.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_17_clamav.html
Other Advisory URL: http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=475
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-security-announce-2007/msg00018.html
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Feb/0004.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-03.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:043
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133

Tools & Filters

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	3917

Credit

Anonymous - iDefense Labs VCP

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 4.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2007-02-20 | Disagree?

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